Auction Drafts

what would be better, instead of an auto draft, would be an auction draft. Auto drafts, because the computer always chooses the same player position for its choice when you miss your choice, it skews the draft where you might get an 8mil player when a 10mil player is still available at another position.

An auction draft would make it so that the person who bids the highest on a player would get that player. The salaries wouldn't matter, you do a blind bid on 25 players you want giving the price you want to pay. The salary cap would only influence the amount you spend per player making an 80mil or a 200mil salary cap the exact same.

It would be an interesting twist on the game.

I used to do this with buddies to add interest to the game. Everyone pays 25.00 for an auction draft. the money was pooled and split at the end of the year. Each of the four division winners get 12.5 % of the money. If they move on to the next round they get another 12.5%, and if they win the world series they get the remaining 25%.

We would just announce players and the bidding would begin in increments of 25 cents. Once everyone had their teams we would start. It took a weekend to do but it definitely a blast to do it.

Here it would be a bit different as you would need to do blind bids of 25 players. You take the amount of your salary cap, make the minimum amount to buy a player (usually 1% to 4% of the total amount) list the 25 players you want, what you want to pay for them, use the same roster restrictions (2 catchers, 1 player per position, 9 pitchers 3 relievers etc.) and let it fly. If there are any tie bids the program uses a random way to make the choice. After all the players that were bid on are selected, there is a second round of bids on the players that are left in the positions people still need with the amount of money they have remaining, and so on, for perhaps 5 rounds if it takes that many times, then the program just chooses for you the remaining players.

you could also have a live version of this for those who wanted to spend a few hours outbidding or out smarting their opponents.

what would be better, instead of an auto draft, would be an auction draft. Auto drafts, because the computer always chooses the same player position for its choice when you miss your choice, it skews the draft where you might get an 8mil player when a 10mil player is still available at another position.

An auction draft would make it so that the person who bids the highest on a player would get that player. The salaries wouldn't matter, you do a blind bid on 25 players you want giving the price you want to pay. The salary cap would only influence the amount you spend per player making an 80mil or a 200mil salary cap the exact same.

It would be an interesting twist on the game.

I used to do this with buddies to add interest to the game. Everyone pays 25.00 for an auction draft. the money was pooled and split at the end of the year. Each of the four division winners get 12.5 % of the money. If they move on to the next round they get another 12.5%, and if they win the world series they get the remaining 25%.

We would just announce players and the bidding would begin in increments of 25 cents. Once everyone had their teams we would start. It took a weekend to do but it definitely a blast to do it.

Here it would be a bit different as you would need to do blind bids of 25 players. You take the amount of your salary cap, make the minimum amount to buy a player (usually 1% to 4% of the total amount) list the 25 players you want, what you want to pay for them, use the same roster restrictions (2 catchers, 1 player per position, 9 pitchers 3 relievers etc.) and let it fly. If there are any tie bids the program uses a random way to make the choice. After all the players that were bid on are selected, there is a second round of bids on the players that are left in the positions people still need with the amount of money they have remaining, and so on, for perhaps 5 rounds if it takes that many times, then the program just chooses for you the remaining players.

you could also have a live version of this for those who wanted to spend a few hours outbidding or out smarting their opponents.

I made this suggestion to Bernie years ago on the TSN MB site. There is an old wish list somewhere in cyber-space with that suggestion.

http://somonline.wikia.com/wiki/Development_status

Excellent idea. We have done rotisserie style auction in the old 1969 format. Took a long time but was awesome.

It's not that the idea is bad; it's quite interesting. However, after all the resources SOM put into creating regular live drafts, the league directory is littered with unfilled live draft leagues. In fact, every league on the list has either missed its draft date or looks unlikely to fill in time.

Maybe if there is an eventual culture shift in the online game with lots of managers making the switch to live drafts it would make sense for SOM to consider adding an auction draft. Unless that shift happens, it makes no economical sense.

Auction drafts would be cool but I understand it is even now difficult to get enough managers for the leagues available now. If auction drafts were available it would dilute the pool of players even more.

Scott.